Dr Michael Powers QC, a clinical negligence specialist, is leaving Hailsham Chambers to join Clerksroom in Taunton as the head of its clinical negligence team. Powers, who is also a qualified doctor, will be the first silk to join the case management centre on a full-time basis. Hailsham has also lost professional negligence specialist Mark Simpson, to Fountain Court Chambers. Simpson, who was called to the bar in 1992, has appeared in Hall v Simons and Dubai Aluminium. He is currently acting for Ernst & Young in the Equitable Life litigation.
New in-houser sparks adviser rejig at Waters
Bingham McCutchen retains US corporate role; Lawrence Graham picked for UK Waters Corporation, a $3.6bn (£2.2bn) US company, is poised for a wholesale shake-up of its legal advisers after creating a new general counsel role.Mark Beaudouin, formerly general counsel at US biotech company Parexel, has taken on the new role in Massachusetts and is currently […]
